THE ROUND-UP 



of the great frontier show swung round, and the per- 

 suasions of A. Phimister Proctor, the sculptor, who 

 was then modeling him and living nearby, induced him 

 to travel again with his family and pitch his tepee by 

 the Umatilla. 



Many remember that Saturday afternoon in 1916. 

 Sundown was one of the fourteen riders who had rid- 

 den into the semi-finals. He had qualified by riding a 

 hard bucking little buckskin, Casey Jones. In the 

 semi-finals on Saturday he rode sunfishing, twisting 

 Wiggles in a most sensational style, and by doing so 

 also rode into great popularity with the crowd. It was 

 this ride that finally put him with Rufus Rollen of 

 Claremont, Oklahoma, and Broncho Bob Hall of Po- 

 catello, Idaho, to compete in the grand finals that year 

 for the championship of the world. 



Three wicked outlaws, were saved for the finals, 

 Long Tom, Angel and Speed Ball. Rollen drew the 

 redoubtable old Long Tom, and Hall the lean black 

 plunger, Speed Ball, that has been in many a final con- 

 test. To Sundown's lot fell Angel, the big bay on 

 which Lou Minor rode into the championship in 1912. 

 Despite Speed Ball's skyscraping, long, bounding buck, 

 Hall was master of him from the start and never for 

 a moment was off balance, although he hesitated to 

 attempt to scratch him. 



When Rollen, acknowledged as one of the best 

 riders in the country and fresh from wins in Kansas 

 City and elsewhere, mounted to the back of old Long 

 Tom, there was a hush over the stadium. While the 

 crowd's sympathies were with Sundown, they knew 

 that if Rollen scratched Long Tom and rode him to 

 a finish the championship would undoubtedly be his. 

 The big sorrel brute pounded across the arena with ter- 



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